Posted 4:51 PM by extinct

Green-Eyed At West Point? In an otherwise interesting and useful article at the Nation, the following sentence appears: "[T]here's a smaller group {of military people} that believes political leaders, instead of really addressing problems and resource issues, are going to go out and empire-grab and disguise it as something else so we can feed a warped version of the American dream, in which we continue to consume more resources and produce more waste, rather than really struggle with what it takes to keep the American dream viable and inspirational in a world of 6 billion people." Isn't it convenient that these dissenters exactly mouth Green rhetoric and that the Nation has found them? While I am not surprised to hear of Empire skeptics in the military (thank God), this sounds a little bit wishful-thinkingish.